7.06.2009

Stop H*Commerce

Stop H*Commerce. Go there. Please.

It's a documentary revealing the business of hacking. It gives an inside look into the lives of a white-hat hacker and a victim of the Nigerian email scam. You know, the one about a lawyer or banker having no way of transferring a large sum of money and he needs YOUR help. This scam is also known as the 419 scam whose name four-one-nine was given from the Nigerian penal code for scamming.

H*commerce (Hacker Commerce) is a term coined for an industry unlike any industry that happens all around the world. The people involved are hackers and thieves and what they trade is your data. It can be anything, but the most popular item on the black market menu is called the "dump" - the data on the magnetic strip on the back of credit cards. Read all about it here.